Baseboard duster and applicator



July 10, 1962 c. J. BRADLEY BASEBOARD DUSTER AND APPLICATOR Filed April 1, 1960 FIGURE 2.

FIGURE FIGURE INVENTOR.

CORTEZ J. BRADLEY BY? WW ATTORNEY FIGURE 4.

United rates This invention relates to a baseboard applicator for dusting and applying oils and waxes to a baseboard adjacent a floor and wall of a room.

Heretofore, particularly in oflice buildings where there are many stories having uniform baseboards adjacent to the respective floors and walls thereof, the janitor and maid service has become a tremendous task for just the dusting and oiling or waxing of the baseboards. The janitors or maids usually have to kneel on the floor and use cloths with their hands for the many tiresome and wearisome hours of dusting, oiling, and waxing the baseboards. 1

My baseboard applicator has a pair of upright plates with the surfaces thereof spaced parallel by one or more members and supported on a pair of rollers rotatably positioned between the pair of upright plates for longitudinal movement thereof. The rollers are positioned to support the lower edges of the upright plates slightly above the lower contact surfaces of the rollers, a pad is secured to one or both exterior surfaces of the upright plates for dusting or applying wax or oil to a. baseboard by the efiective act-ion of friction, and one end of a handle is located and pivoted between the pair of upright plates and supporting rollers.

An advantage of my applicator is that the applicator can easily be manually propelled on the adjacent floor of a baseboard with the handle thereof being pivoted for reverse action. The janitor or maid can easily walk uprightly and with ease in dusting or applying waxes and oils to the baseboard by a rubbing friction action with only a fraction of the time required for previous methods.

atent Q Another advantage of my applicator as previously de scribed is that one pad can be used for dusting and the opposite pad can be used for the applicator. The handle is located and pivoted between the plates for ease and natural positioning for the operator and for the important quick reversal of plates and pads to change from a dusting pad to an applicator pad by rotating the handle only one half of a revolution.

This invention and specification will be more fully understood with reference to the accompanying drawing and the scope of the appended claims.

FIGURE 1 is a view in elevation illustrating either end of my applicator with the handle projected upwardly and a portion thereof shown broken away to save illustrating space. A baseboard, floor and wall are shown in fragmentary form.

FIGURE 2 is a view in elevation illustrating either side of my applicator. A portion of the handle is shown broken away in solid lines, one upright position is shownin dash lines, and a third position is shown in dash lines illustrating a reversal of direction for movement, or when the opposite pads are reversed for friction contact with the baseboard illustrated in fragmentary form with an adjacent wall and floor.

FIGURE 3 is a view illustrating a section taken on lines 3-3 of FIGURE 2, illustrating the preferred rollers rotatably mounted between the plates spaced parallel.

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FIGURE 4 is a view illustrating a section in fragmentary form taken on lines 44 of FIGURE 2 illustrating tllile 1pivoted handle between the pair of plates spaced para e My applicator 5 broadly has a pair of plates 6 with the surfaces thereof being spaced parallel by one or more spacing members 7, 8 and 9. Rollers 10 are rotatably mounted between the pair of plates 6 for longitudinal movement of the applicator 5 and-one end of the handle 11 is located and pivoted between the plates 6 for manually propelling the applicator on the rollers 10. The rollers 19 are positioned to support the lower edges of the pair of plates 6 slightly above the lower rolling contact surfaces of the rollers 10, and pads 12 are secured to opposite exterior surfaces of the applicator plates 6.

My preferred form of applicator 5 is made of plates 6 of rectangular shape with the surfaces thereof being spaced by spacing members 7, 8 and 9 preferably round and serving as pins for support of the pivoted handle, and rotation of the rollers ltl preferably of a non-friction type. The pins 7, 8 and 9 are pressed or welded into holes in the plates 6.

A person may use both pads 12 pre-treated for applying oil or waxes, or one pad 12 may be used for dusting and the other pad for oiling or waxing. The person takes the handle 11 in one or both hands and propells the applicator 5 on supported rollers 10 on a floor 13 adjacent to a baseboard 14 to be dusted or oiled. The baseboard 14 is the conventional means of protecting a wall 15 from soil when cleaning the floor 13.

When a person desires to rub the opposite pad 12 against the baseboard he lifts and relatively reverses the applicator by the handle 11, turns the handle half a revolution, and the weight of the rollers will cause the applicator to remain in an upright position.

I claim:

1. A pair of flat plates normally positioned uprightly, a pair of supporting rollers, a pair of pins, the end portions of said pair of pins spacing opposed surfaces of said pair of flat plates in parallel relation sufficiently to receive and support said pair of supporting rollers on said pins, said pair of pins being spaced parallel in the lower end portions of said pair of flat plates, a third pin, the end portions of said third pin being secured in the central portion of said pair of flat plates, a handle, one end portion of said handle being pivoted on said third pin,

a flat pad, and said fiat pad being secured over one outer face of one of said pair of flat plates adapted for friction contact with a surface of a baseboard.

2. An article as claimed in claim 1, a waxing flat pad, and said waxing fiat pad being secured over the outer face of the opposite flat plate adapted a surface of a baseboard.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS for friction contact with 

